Office architecture

Office design: the latest trends in workspace architecture

Corporate identity is expressed through workspace design. Draw inspiration from the latest design trends and evolving ideas across the realm of office design. Attract the most eager millennials and accommodate the most seasoned experts into your team. Work it.

Frank Gehry’s latest office building at Facebook’s Menlo Park HQ opens

A new office building at Facebook’s headquarters at Menlo Park by Frank Gehry has opened. Named MK21, the office building was designed and built in less than 18 months and has a focus on sustainability. The building is an extension to MK20, a...

Jean Nouvel’s European Patent Office is inaugurated in The Hague

Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Dam & Partners Architecten’s new European Patent Office (EPO) building in Rijswijk, near The Hague, was inaugurated on 27 June. The slim yet monumental glass block, which rises up from the flat landscape of the Netherlands...

New brutalism: Constantin Brodzki’s Brussels HQ is up for renovation by Fosbury & Sons

David Chipperfield’s cubic Amorepacific headquarters are inaugurated in Seoul

When David Chipperfield was called to design a new headquarters for Asian skincare brand Amorepacific in Seoul, one of the primary concerns that emerged was creating a building with a strong identity; but one, which would be intrinsically connected to...

Stanton Williams transform Tintagel House into The Office Group co-working hub

Ask any London cabbie where Tintagel House is and they know to head to Vauxhall to a 1960s building that has a rich, if sombre, history. Spanning the desolate Albert Embankment, the imposing block was home to the Metropolitan Police...

Reporting from the building site at Ron Arad’s clever ToHA towers in Tel Aviv

Flexibility and imaginative engineering meet at the building site for ToHA – a.k.a Totseret Ha-Aretz – in Tel Aviv. The new development, designed by Ron Arad, has been rising fast in the Israeli town, gearing up to make...

A derelict brutalist building becomes east London’s newest creative hub

Up-and-coming London architects SODA have turned 50,000 square feet of derelict brutalism into a magnet for creatives. Built by Irish architects Munce & Kennedy in 1964, the Silver Building in the capital’s Royal Docks was formerly a brewery. Its...

In the cloud: we tour Lavazza’s new Turin headquarters

The concept of a cloud has always had a strong presence in the history of art and design; from Leonardo and Mantegna right up to the binary codes of Steve Jobs, the cumulus has always symbolised enlightened thinking. The cloud’s elegant curves have...

Hub culture: how Second Home is engineering the new creative hothouse

In 2010, Rohan Silva was a smart young thing pulled from the UK’s Treasury department into the policy unit at No.10 to advise the then prime minister David Cameron. He had already launched the Tech City initiative that established East...

What’s on the horizon for Richard Meier & Partners?

Richard Meier & Partners’ designs cross typologies and timezones, yet you can always recognise the distinctly clean lines, lightweight appearance and clear construction of the firm’s work. From exterior to interior, each building and development elevates its user – the body is guided, the...

Singapore embraces the co-working revolution

From Amsterdam to Seattle, co-working spaces have become an integral part of the office landscape – a kind of mental, emotional and physical reset in how we approach our work environment. And though the open plan office space – typically...